The Australian Open
24 January 2015
Melbourne, Vic
On a gorgeous, sunny Saturday with temperatures near 30C (86F), we headed out to the biggest event in town, the Australian Open. The rest of the city was there as well. Tickets to the two main courts were sold out so we settled for ground passes. These allowed access to all other venues, including the very large Hisense Arena. It, however, also meant that we’d miss Venus Williams’ match. Bummer, but by arriving early we did get to see Serena practicing from up close.
After watching a few others warm up, we hustled to Hisense. Many seats were available prior to the 11am first match. A few hours later, the place was packed. We endured two hours of sitting in direct sun, to see the spaniard, Muguruza down Bacsinszky of Switzerland in a hard fought women’s singles match. A welcome relief as the shade enveloped us for match two. Here, the 8th ranked Montenegro-Canadian Milos Raonic used his 220+ km/h serve to breeze by the scrappy Benjamin Becker of Germany.
